August 2015
Letter from the Editors
Matthew Olzmann & Gabriel Blackwell
FICTION
Roebling
Jessica Lee Richardson
I Cried So Much that Night, as I Sometimes Did
Corwin Ericson
Surprise Island
Henry Hoke
Falconetti Drinks the Water of Anguish
Garrett Saleen
EXCERPT
Desolation of Avenues Untold
Brandon Hobson
Slab
Selah Saterstrom
POETRY
A Resistance Song of Zeppelins for Julio
Youngest Filament in the Universe
Karen An-hwei Lee
Elegy Where the Snow Speaks Its Own Name
Matthew Wimberley
Mare Margins
Rachel Brownson
The Truth
Homeric
Humbleman
Michael Bazzett
NONFICTION
Skin Cells
Kina M. Viola
BOOK REVIEWS
The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson
reviewed by Liz Greenhill
Big Venerable by Matt Rowan
reviewed by Joseph G. Peterson
Last Mass by Jamie Iredell
reviewed by Amber Nicole Brooks
In the Circus of You by Nicelle Davis and Cheryl Gross
reviewed by Marrie Curran